By now, pretty much everyone knows that a killer whale killed a trainer at Sea World in Orlando. The animal grabbed her and thrashed her around until she drowned.
I watched an interview with a former trainer who knew the deceased woman, and she said the trainer would not want anything bad to happen to the whale because of this. She said that the other trainer loved these animals and treated them as if they were her children, which she incidentally, didn’t have. Oh, by the way, this whale had already killed two other people.
That’s one of the problems with some people in modern society – they think animals are the same as humans and should be treated as such.
Most normal individuals wouldn’t spend much time blubbering about what to do – they would already be stocking up on lamp oil. This would not sit well with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which busies itself by ramming Japanese whaling ships with its vessel.
The International Whaling Commission (IWC), placed a moratorium on whaling in 1982, and Japan agreed to its terms in 1986. However, Japan still practices what it calls a “scientific whaling program,” with the purpose of assessing stocks, although this has nothing to do with investing.
So now you’re probably wondering, “What does any of this have to do with the 2010 Olympics”? and you would be right, the two are not vaguely related. Any events featuring whales would be more aptly suited to the summer Olympics.
But this article isn’t about the Olympics, it’s about a page or so longer than it should be.
The point is, we have to stop treating animals the same way we treat people. Unlike humans who kill, animals will sometimes kill again, if given a second chance, or maybe a third chance. Okay, so maybe they are a lot like people in some respects.
It’s my opinion that this creature does not deserve a fourth chance. It never should have been back on the streets after it killed for the second time, and that’s a sad commentary on our judicial system.
This reminds me (with even more tragic circumstances), of Roy Horn, of Siegfried and Roy fame, who said, on his way to the hospital after being bitten by one of his tigers, “Don’t shoot the cat!”
Maybe the duo can start construction on a very large aquarium at their home.